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QR Code-Enabled Animated Tattoo

by Jason Schupp on July 14, 2011

In June, 2011, Paris-based tattoo artist Karl Marc incorporated a QR code into a client’s tattoo, which when scanned revealed an animated version of the rose within the tattoo. Needles and Sins reports that the client, Marco, can change where the QR code points so he can swap new animations…

Mad TV iPad Parody (2006)

by Jason Schupp on January 27, 2010

I don’t know if it’s my growing cynicism from continued exposure to Silicon Valley, or if I’m just gadgeted out, but I wasn’t at all excited waking up this morning to hear what Apple was releasing at their event today. When I caught up with the rest of the Internet…

This Is My Milwaukee – Come For The Weekend, Stay For Life!

by Jason Schupp on January 8, 2009

guest post by Jason Schupp To be honest, I’m not a big fan of alternate reality games—yet—as the almost inevitable product tie-in at the end makes me feel like everyone’s been working to arrive at a commercial, but if they continue making introductory videos like the one for This Is…

Rare Exports, The Brutal Story of Where Santas Really Come From

by Jason Schupp on December 30, 2008

Although the Christmas season is over for this year, I think there’s room for one more Santa origin tale. From Finnish production company Woodpecker Films comes this short film on where Santas come from: “Rare Exports”, who have been delivering real Finnish Father Christmases since 1739. Warning: not for the…

The First EqualityCamp in San Francisco

by Jason Schupp on December 29, 2008

Shortly after Prop 8 passed in California, a conversation on the Heather Gold Show about its passing prompted Heather and guest Tara Hunt of Citizen Space to gather several others and start organizing EqualityCamp. A one-day event to discuss new ways of gaining support for same-sex marriage, EqualityCamp is using…

Complaints Choirs Worldwide

by Jason Schupp on December 9, 2008

guest post by Jason Schupp Since 2005, people in cities worldwide have organized to complain through song (rather than Twitter, blogs or talk radio) ever since two Helsinkians plotted to make it happen: It all got started during a winter day walk of Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen in Helsinki….

The Elsewhere Public Works Agency Needs Your Help

by Jason Schupp on October 7, 2008

guest post by Jason Schupp Recently, I received a strange email from a group calling themselves the Elsewhere Public Works Agency asking me to investigate another outfit known as The Jejune Institute, the website for which invokes a pastiche of 70s pseudo-science and new-agey cultism. Here’s the video from their…

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